WOSC | World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics

WOSC 2014 is now concluded
We want to highlight:

Attendees of 26 countries from around the word gathered in Ibague, Colombia.

10 keynote speakers presented current issues and future perspectives on cybernetics and system thinking.

Professor Dr. Humberto Maturana was distinguished with WOSC’s Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold Medal

Participants contributed papers to 9 themes

No	Themes	Theme Coordinador
1	Digital Society & Business Ecosystems	Igor Perko and Raul Espejo
2	Complexity, Sustainability and Self-Organisation	Angela Espinosa
3	Ecosystems – Renewal for Sustainability	Markus Schwaninger
4	Design and Control of Self-organising Systems	Carlos Gershenson
5	Power, Citizenship and Democracy	Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek and Germán Bula
6	Computer modelling, power and the management of complexity	Hernán López Garay
7	Networks of influence: systems dynamics	José Pérez Rios
8	Transdisciplinary modelling and decision processes	Jerzy Jozefczyk
9	Cyber-systemic Governance Autopoiesis and Social Processes	Sandro Schlindwein

Prize and Commendations to papers

Congress Theme	Paper Title	Authors	Resolution
Networks of influence: systems dynamics	A system dynamics model of the nutritional stage of the Colombian population by socioeconomic status	Jose David Meisel, Olga L. Sarmiento, Camilo Olaya & Roberto Zarama	Kybernetes prize for the Outstanding Paper of the Congress



Digital Society & Business Ecosystems	Sharing business partner behavior	Igor Perko, Andreja Primec & Robert Horvat	Highly commended paper
Power, Citizenship and Democracy	Towards a Non-trivializing Education	Germán Bula	Highly commended paper
Computer modelling, power and the management of complexity	Modeling and Simulating Moral Emotions in Organizations: exploring its impact on collaboration	Oswaldo Terán, Christophe Sibertin-Blanc & Benoit Gaudou	Highly commended paper

You may find more details on the Congress homepage wosc-congress.unibague.edu.co.

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics